The minerals that are being targeted form a critical part of the sea floor, and the sea floor is what life attaches to in the ...

In decades of deep-sea exploration, humans have observed less than 0.001% of the deep ocean floor - an area about the size of ...

It’s something never seen before,” marine biologist Cherisse Du Preez told Science Post France, when her team’s submersible ...

Researchers say our understanding of Earth’s largest biome is based on a tiny, unrepresentative sample dominated by just a ...

The Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute captured footage of a giant phantom jelly with ribbon-like arms over 30 feet ...

A rarely spotted “supergiant” crustacean related to woodlice is actually a common inhabitant of the sea floor, a new study finds. The deep-sea creature, Alicella gigantea, which can grow up to 34cm ...

Deep sea mining has been off limits thus far ... and that its impacts on the underwater ecosystem at the depth and location it's chosen will not be significant. A major challenge for TMC is ...

The deep sea refers to the part of the ocean below 200 meters (656 ft.), at which light begins to disappear. Despite making up more than 90% of the Earth’s marine environment, much of the deep-sea ...